The Global Waste Management Symposium, which will be held 7-10 September 2008 in Copper Mountain, Colorado, has announced a second keynote speaker for Monday, September 8: Håkan Rylander, CEO, SYSAV Company Group, South Scania Waste Company, Sweden.
Mr. Rylander’s presentation is entitled "Maximum Recycling of Material and Energy – Minimum of Landfilling: Perspectives from Europe."
He will discuss European policies on waste disposal and recycling and how these policies provide incentives to maximize recycling and energy production and minimize the use of landfills. He will share his thoughts about the ban on degradable organics and how the ban has resulted in greater biological pretreatment. In addition, Mr. Rylander will talk about extended producer responsibility programs in some European countries and compare this to his approach to waste-to-energy.
Håkan Rylander has been working in the field of waste management since 1972 following his Masters degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Lund, Sweden. Currently, he is the CEO of SYSAV Company Group, South Scania Waste Company, a position he assumed in 1996. At SYSAV, a regional company owned by 14 municipalities, Mr. Rylander is promoting waste-to-energy and has written many articles on the topic. He is a member of a Working Group on Technical Development within the Energy Sector at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and previously served as the Chairman of the Scania Society of Engineers and President of the International Solid Waste Association. In addition, he is the Deputy President of the Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants, on the Board of Directors of the Swedish Association of Waste Management, and the Swedish representative in the Nordic Association of Waste Management.
AND DON’T FORGET…
The first keynote speaker is Michael J. Walsh, an Executive Vice President of Chicago Climate Exchange Inc. Mr. Walsh’s address is titled "The Potential for National Carbon Emissions Trading to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions."
He will speak at 8:30 am on Monday, September 8.
Dr. Michael J. Walsh’s company, Chicago Climate Exchange, is a self-regulatory exchange that administers a voluntary, legally binding greenhouse gas reduction and trading program for North America. Dr. Walsh also serves on the Board of Directors of the Montreal Climate Exchange.
In his prior position with Environmental Financial Products (the predecessor company to CCX), Dr. Walsh arranged several international carbon credit transactions and served as liaison and lead writer for a series of technical papers on international emissions trading prepared for the Government of Canada. As a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development, Dr. Walsh provided instructional seminars on emissions trading for industry and government officials from several European countries. He has been a speaker at United Nations climate conferences at Geneva, Kyoto, Buenos Aires, Bonn and The Hague, and has been a keynote speaker at industry conferences and educational workshops around the world.
The Global Waste Management Symposium will be held 7-10 September 2008 in Copper Mountain, Colorado. For more information, please visit the conference website.
